A Simplified Life: Tactical Tools for Intentional Living

Do you long to simplify the demands on your time, energy, and resources? Have complicated responsibilities, overwhelming to-do lists, and endless clutter left you feeling overwhelmed? Busy wife, mom, entrepreneur, and best-selling author Emily Ley knows how you feel. With a growing family, increased work demands, and more, she understands the struggle it is to keep the plates spinning.

Make It Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

You were created for a purpose, and it's time to make it happen.
Make It Happen is the story of how I surrendered my fear, took the leap, and got a life. In my case, a perfectly imperfect, fulfilling life as a mama, a working woman, and a grateful wife. This is the story of how I chose to make "it" - a greater purpose than mine - happen, and how you can too.

Dance, Stand, Run: The God-Inspired Moves of a Woman on Holy Ground

Grace is always good news. But it's not cheap—true grace compels us to change. That’s where holiness comes in. Beloved writer, speaker, and bestselling coauthor of
Wild and Free Jess Connolly will be the first to admit that not long ago, like many women, she grasped grace but she had forgotten holiness.
Dance, Stand, Run charts her discovery that holiness was never meant to be a shaming reminder of what we “should” be doing, but rather a profound privilege of becoming more like Christ.

Grace Not Perfection: Embracing Simplicity, Celebrating Joy

I will hold myself to a standard of grace, not perfection. As a busy wife, new mother, business owner, and designer, Emily Ley came to a point when she suddenly realized she couldn't do it all. She needed to simplify her life, organize her days, and prioritize the priorities. She decided to hold herself to a standard of grace rather than perfection. This mantra led to the creation of her best-selling Simplified Planner®, a favorite among busy women everywhere.

The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

New York Times best-selling author of One Thousand Gifts Ann Voskamp sits at the edge of her life and all of her own unspoken brokenness and asks: What if you really want to live abundantly before it's too late? What do you do if you really want to know abundant wholeness? This is the one begging question that’s behind every single aspect of our lives—and one that The Broken Way rises up to explore in the most unexpected ways.

The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

Does your home sometimes feel like just a place to eat, sleep, and change clothes on the way to the next activity? Do you long for "home" to mean more than a place where you stash your stuff? Wouldn't you love it to become a haven of warmth, rest, and joy...the one place where you and your family can't wait to be? There is good news waiting for you in
The Lifegiving Home. Every day of your family's life can be as special and important to you as it already is to God.

Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

The enemy wants us to feel rejected, left out, lonely, and less than. When we allow him to speak lies through our rejection, he pickpockets our purpose. Cripples our courage. Dismantles our dreams. And blinds us to the beauty of Christ's powerful love. In
Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences with rejection - from the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father to the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over.

You have an enemy...and he's dead set on destroying all you hold dear and keeping you from experiencing abundant life in Christ. What's more, his approach to disrupting your life and discrediting your faith isn't general or generic, not a one-size-fits-all. It's specific. Personalized. Targeted. So this audiobook is your chance to strike back. With prayer. With a weapon that really works.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

In
One Thousand Gifts, Ann invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on the transformative spiritual discipline of chronicling God's gifts. It's only in this expressing of gratitude for the life we already have, we discover the life we've always wanted... a life we can take, give thanks for, and break for others. We come to feel and know the impossible right down in our bones: we are wildly loved - by God.

Goliath Must Fall: Winning the Battle Against Your Giants

It's likely you have a threatening giant in your life...an adversary or stronghold that's diminishing your ability to live a full and free life. Frozen in the grip of rejection, fear, anger, comfort, or addiction, we lose sight of the promise God has for our lives. Demoralized and defeated, we settle for far less than his best. God has a better plan for you, a plan for you to live in victory. That's why he has silenced your giant once and for all.

None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Human beings were created to reflect the image of God - but only to a limited extent. Although we share important attributes with God (love, mercy, compassion, etc.), there are other qualities that only God possesses, such as unlimited power, knowledge, and authority. At the root of all sin is our rebellious desire to be like God in such ways - a desire that first manifested itself in the Garden of Eden. In
None Like Him, Jen Wilkin leads us on a journey to discover 10 ways God is different from us - and why that's a good thing.

Listen, Love, Repeat

Our culture is self-obsessed - in our schedules, in our relationships, and especially online. (Can you say
selfie?) But in this near-narcissism, people are less content than in decades past. Why? Because we forgot the joy that comes from putting others first. Doing so requires us to live alert, listening for "heart drops", hints from those in our lives who need a helping hand or a generous dose of encouragement. Living alert lifts our own spirits, showing us that blessing others blesses us even more.

The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids

The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids includes 365 devotions that tie in to the themes and ideas found in the best-selling
The Purpose Driven Life. Written at a third- to fourth-grade level, each devo includes a scripture, short message, and prayer or thought for the day to help kids discover who they are in God's eyes. Capturing the hearts of the new generation means ensuring they know their purpose and grow up confident of their value in God and their relationship to Christ

Present over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

In a culture that values speed, efficiency, image, and busyness, some of us are aching for another way to live: more intentional, more connected. Simpler, slower, richer. Many of us have believed the myth that achievement and success bring us contentment, only to find it's actually things like connection and meaning, not success and achievement, that provide true peace and genuine happiness.
Present over Perfect is best-selling author Shauna Niequist's motto for how to live a rich, engaged, and loving life in the midst of what often feels terribly messy and imperfect.

Wild and Free: A Hope-Filled Anthem for the Woman Who Feels She Is Both Too Much and Never Enough

Wild and Free is in equal parts an anthem and an invitation to find freedom from the cultural captivity that holds us back, and freedom to step into the wild and holy call of God in our lives. With fresh biblical insight tracing all the way back to Eve and a treasury of practical application, Jess and Hayley reveal how women today can walk in the true liberty we already have in Jesus.

The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months

Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a 12-month execution cycle. Instead,
The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies.
The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now.

Chasing Slow

In
Chasing Slow, viral sensation and HGTV.com star Erin Loechner turns away from fast and fame and frenzy. Follow along as she blazes the trail toward a new-fashioned lifestyle - one that will refresh your perspective, renew your priorities, and shift your focus to the journey that matters most.

The Prodigal God

Timothy Keller focuses on Jesus' best-known parable - the prodigal son - as a paradigm for the central messages of Christianity: grace, hope and salvation. In
The Prodigal God, New York pastor Timothy Keller uses the story of the prodigal son to shine a light on the beautiful central message of Jesus: the gospel of grace, hope and salvation. Keller argues that the parable of the prodigal son, while Jesus' best-known parable, is also his least understood.

Publisher's Summary

A flourishing life is possible - no perfection required!

Women often feel like they have to have it all together in order to live meaningful lives. Instead they feel inadequate, overwhelmed, and exhausted as they try to figure out how to do it all. Author, business owner, and mom to three Lara Casey offers sound and grace-filled advice: "We can't do it all and do it well. But we can choose to cultivate what matters."

Welcome to the journey of getting messy in the rich soil of possibility - embracing imperfect, grace-filled progress to grow a life of joy.

Written as part encouragement anthem and part practical guide, Cultivate offers wisdom from God's word alongside lessons Lara has learned in her garden. Woven throughout is her personal story that helps release listeners from the pressure to achieve and gives them freedom to move from planning to planting a meaningful legacy. "It's in the imperfect - the mess of the dirt - that good things grow," Casey reminds listeners. "Peonies grow through the dirt, and so do we." Listeners will learn to embrace the seasons they're in, finding balance as they interact in fresh ways with their current life scenarios, with God, and in the communities where they are planted.

Special features include:

Actionable "Cultivate It" prompts throughout the book

A 10-week "Cultivate Together" discussion guide, with questions for small groups

"Grace from the Garden" vignettes providing encouragement and inspiration

Find the joy and the freedom that comes in cultivating what matters, little by little, with God's transforming grace.

loved every moment of this book. Lara is so real, and just really speaks deep. time to listen again.

5 of 5 people found this review helpful

Brodie

07/10/17

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"Inspiring and friendly!"

Like an honest, hopeful conversation with a friend over coffee to make fruitful life changes

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

Tawanna Turner

23/08/17

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"Needs editing"

There are so many places that should have been edited out but were left. It's a good message, just poorly edited.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

katharyn725

08/08/17

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"Excellent, I really enjoyed it!"

Lara is a great narrator!! It's like you are just sitting together and hanging out. I enjoyed all the parallels to gardening in this book. As someone who is also an unlikely gardener, giving my go at gardening these past couple of years, I could relate! This book was filled with wonderful reminders of the lies we find ourselves believing and how to replace them with God's truth. I love Lara's openness and honesty about her journey throughout the book. I loved Lara's first book, Make It Happen, and this second book was another great one! Thank you Lara for opening up and sharing your story. It's through your experiences- good and bad-that you are so effectively able to encourage other women. People are drawn to those who are open, honest and willing to be vulnerable. I'm sure it felt risky, but I assure you it was worth it. Thank you for taking that risk! (I also love all your pictures of Gracie's garden that you post!)

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Tammy

WOODSTOCK, GA, United States

28/11/17

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"Loved this so much! "

This book totally resonated with me in the season of life I’m in. Lara narrated beautifully, and was such an encourager to not get caught up in the things that don’t matter, but to cultivate a lasting legacy and a life that matters. I will read this many times , I’m sure.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Chandra L Alley

13/08/17

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"Cultivate sows seeds of grace, intentionality, and "peace in our mess" in those who read it!"

This book is inspired! Thank you to Lara Casey for sharing her life, her story, and the lessons that God has taught her; so that seeds of grace, intentionality, and "peace in our mess" could be sown into the lives of others! Cultivate has a beautiful balance and flow that makes introducing sometimes challenging ideas into your world, a little easier to swallow. If you have dreams and desires that you have yet to see fulfilled (whether bubbling just under the surface or hidden deep within), this book can help guide you to walking out God's plan for you in a purposeful way that brings Him glory. Definitely a must read (listen)!

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Samantha

16/07/17

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"A book guaranteed to rattle up your heart and lead you to better!"

This book will cause you to have and experience convictions within your heart and soul. I have followed Lara for a few years now and her stories leave lasting impressions but are done in a way that force me to keep being less self serving and instead lead by cultivating my gifts. Cultivate is just that extra reminder and push. God has great things in store for you and this book will help you dig deep and get closer to that.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

bub

15/12/17

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"Not a how-to book that offers strategies, rather a diary on God bringing joy to life."

Fact - substantially based on having faith in God. For one to strongly believes in God’s love, whatever happened could be perceived as positive.

Pro - narrated nicely by the author, who offers her perception on how to live a good life, making analogy to cultivating plants. The way she put in words may resonate to your soul to some extent.

Real life story told is an example on how trusting God benefits you, i.e. forcing perspective to be optimistic, whether God is real or not is not a question, but believing that all things created by God always positively serve us, regardless of how bad things may seem. This belief could let you have peace in mind.

Con - general concept, no new cutting edge info, key message could have been sum up with half a size of the book.

All chapters are based on having faith in God. There were no suggested strategies or methods given in handling stress or making better decision, as all things comes down to trust in God.

If you do not share similar believe in God, you may not get all answers to life by just asking God. Also, if gardening is not your cup of tea, then you may not be really into this book.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

etha0324

01/12/17

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"wonderful"

This book came along right when I needed it. I highly recommend it. I am now going to listen to it again. I feel like she was speaking my language.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Kate

Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada

04/12/17

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"Preachy"

If #blessed was a book. Every upbeat American female stereotype is embodied in this book from use of the phrase "pray with me" to reader's chirpy voice, one can just image the bounce in the author's blonde high pony, except the author takes pains to let you know she is a redhead. Though it rambles in the middle and never addresses how to mend the faltering marriage presented in the beginning, except to surrender to god's will. By the latter half when the listen becomes immunized to uses to uses of 'HIM' there are some nice sentiments. It's unfortunate to say how annoying this book was because the author clearly had good intentions.

2 of 3 people found this review helpful

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